The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-28

| p. j. EgaG has been sentenced to two
| years In the penitentiary IL will be re
membered he was convicted in st. Louis of
| election frauds last November.
Secretary Fairchild will attend the Cal
| houn monument unveiling. Assistant
| Secretary Thompson will assume his duties
| in his absence.
In speech before the Eighty Club in
London, Gladstone favored dissolution Of
Parliament, on the ground that 1t would be
good for the country.
The American Newspaper Publishers
Association has established an Office in
New York. James s. Metcalf, Of the Buff
falo ErpeSS, is to be in charge.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has called
| meeting for the purpose of taking steps
towards the erection of national memo
rial to Mr.. Gladstone.
Cardinal Gibbons is supported by the
Pope in his decision in favor of the Knights
oJ Labor. The decree is conditional on
good behaviour on the part of the order.
A sharp shock Of earthquake has been
experienced over the whole of the island
OF jersey. The trcmor proceeded from
west to east. No damage was done.
The threatened strike of carpenters in
milwaukee,, Wis, has been avertcd, the
| master carpenters agreeing to keep their
shops open only nine hours after May /,
| and TO pay men the present prices per hour.
The thrcc-masted schooner Geo. s. Marts,
from Baltimore, Md, for Charleston, S.
| c., was blown up and set on fire from
| some unknown cause. Two Of the crew
were killed.
The charge that Parnell had something to
| do with the PhTniX Park murders is gen
| lichplinuoJ II Thn
vestigatcd by a committee of the House of
| Commons.
BY dynamite explosion, 80 miles from
Crystal Fails, Mich, August Brasil John
| Good, VIM. Il0rnbucll, Joseph Weisman
and three others were seriously hurt, thrce
of them mortally.
Evlctions have been resumed on Lord
| Landsdowne's estates. O'Bricn and Kill
| bridge sail for Canada on Sunday to de-
| nounce Lord Landsdowne's course.
| The Delaware House, by vote of 15 to
| GA, has passed high license bill grading
| liquor licenses from $400 for Wilmington
down to 5000 for village and county tav-
| crnS.
The italian Parliament is in session. The
governments policy was stated to be one
of peace, but, to keep up with the times,
! credits for increased armamcntS would be
| asked.
Phil. ID. Armour is up at $50 in the
morning and in another hour has read the
| market and stock reports, eaten his break.
fast and decided on his line of attack fo1
the day.
Tom Ochiltrce says that he never con.
tradicts newspaper statement, but he does
often wish that he could lay hands ON the
reporters who credit him with what Inc
terms villainous grammar.
Prince Frederick Leopold, Of Prussia,
nephew Of Emperor William, of Germany
and Prince Louis EsterhaSy, of Austria,
have arrived in San Francisco. They arc
making tour Of the world.
Managers Of the coal and iron compa
nics in the Birmingham district have ap
pointed delegates to wait upon the Inter
State Commerce Commission when that
body is on its Southern trip.
MagOrElcct Roche, of Chicago, has aD
pointed John English, a newspaper report
cr OF eighteen years experience, his private
secretary, at comfortable salary. Tho
? Mayor is evidently looking little higher
Anent Andrew Cancgies rumorcd en-
gagcmcnt to Miss Whitfield the Washing
ton Post recalls that year ago he was said
to be engaged to Mr.. GladstOnc's daughter
and later to the widow of Scotch duke.
, The striking Newark, n. j., brass
mOuldcrs arc suffering for the nccessarics
OF life. 1t is claimed that the Knights OF
Labor are not standing by them. They
went out-and are still out-by order oI
the local assembly.
About 5000 Chicago carpenters returned
to work on the basis Of s hours and .:
cents an hour. All employers appear to be
| W IbNCr To IL.
Yidcd the men applying arc skilled work
men.
Timber Agent Conner of Florida has re
ported to the General Land Office that =
lumber firm in that State has caused to bt
cut and removed from government lands
in one locality $500, 900 feet Of TIMBER
valued at $50, coo.
~ private letter from cX-Secrctary Man.
ung, the first he has written himself for
months, has been received by a friend in
New York, and pronounccs linn in better
condition than at any time since his attack.
y special dispatch from st. Johns, n.
f., says the bill for thc total prohibition OF
liquor traffic in that colony was defeated
by the casting vote OF the Speaker, but
that it will certainly be carried at the next
session.
has arrived in San Francisco, en- route tc
attend the jubilee of Queen Victoria She
will visit Washington to pay her respects
to President Cleveland before going tc
England.
Six of the men arrested for complicityi in
the plot to assaSSinatc the Gar, which was
TO have been carried out on the 18th 0!
( March, have been sentenced to death
Other conspirators have been sentenced tc
imprisonment for life.
In fight at South Bend, Ind, between
the city police and gang of tramps eleven
tramps were captured; six of them werC
armed with Ievoivcrs. During the fight q
policeman, John Metz, shot tramp through
the heart, killing him instantly.
The Pennsylvania company has exempted
the st. Paul and Burlington from the boy
colt. A Chicago dispatch says that East
Crn trunk lines have resumed the sale OF
through tickets over the Hannibal and st.
Joe to Kansas City and points beyond.
The Rev. Mr.. Carter, a Free Methodist
minister, who has been conducting a series